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“Growing season rainfall varies a lot depending on where you are in the province and the crops that you’re growing,” says Provincial meteorology specialist, Timi Ojo.
Crops, Other

The importance of sticking to your crop’s water budget

Keep this crucial concept in mind when choosing crops to grow

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A ‘perfect’ growing season would have just enough heat and moisture at the right times to make a bumper crop. The problem of course is that it rarely happens. With moisture being so critical to both short- and long-season crops, if producers had a better idea of their crop water budget going into a new
Regenerative agriculture attracts many types of farmers but they all share one goal: building the soil.
Local news, News

Regenerative agriculture creates a sprawling road map

Farmers who want to move past ‘sustainability’ have lots of management advice, but they’re also drawn from a wide range of sectors and every practice may not fit every operation

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Blain Hjertaas of Redvers, Sask., and David Rourke of Minto, Man., were both well-known faces before their panel at the MFGA Regenerative Agriculture Conference in Brandon late last November. Why it matters: Regenerative agriculture has got lots of time in the headlines, but the movement may look very different for an organic farmer with 3,000
Straw being loaded off a field in central Manitoba. 
Crops

Feed your straw to the herd or feed the soil instead?

How much of a nutritional dent does baling straw make when that residue could have been chopped and spread?

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Livestock producers have been scrambling for their neighbours’ straw, but growers may have been reluctant to let it leave the field. Attractive straw prices went head to head with the desire to chop and spread as growers weighed the balance between a secondary income and the cost of exporting those nutrients rather than working them
Introducing the original high stock density grazers
Livestock

Introducing the original high stock density grazers

Many adaptive grazing systems look to mimic the original bison herds, but how do those systems change when bison themselves are behind the wire?

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Bison ranchers Brooks and Jen White of Lyleton, Man., are breaking their own ground on adaptive grazing, and they’re going right back to the system’s roots to do it. It doesn’t take long to find bison mentioned on the many regenerative agriculture blogs, grazing websites and seminar advertisements currently floating through cyberspace. After all, as
A traditional stone barn in Swaledale, Yorkshire. (JayKay57/Getty Images)
Livestock, Weather

Britain outlines post-Brexit farm policy in bill

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London | Reuters –– Britain will introduce legislation on Wednesday for agricultural policy after it leaves the European Union that will link support for farmers to the provision of public benefits such as tackling climate change or preserving beautiful landscapes. The Agriculture Bill, primarily covering England, will provide the basis for policy in a sector
MBFI researchers recommend giving paddocks at least 75 days of growth between grazings.
Livestock

Adapting the adaptive grazing program

Planned grazing must be flexible enough to fit real life, experts say

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The term may be “planned” grazing, but the plan may not survive contact with the field. That was the message that provincial livestock specialists Pam Iwanchysko and Jane Thornton recently made during a planned grazing workshop at the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives site. “There’s no silver bullet in any grazing system,” Thornton said. “I
Beef sector recognized for environmental stewardship
Beef cattle, News

Beef sector recognized for environmental stewardship

Association of Manitoba Community Pastures receives a 2017 Manitoba Excellence Award for Sustainability in Water and Natural Area Stewardship while Manitoba Beef Producers honoured for its work protecting grassland birds

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Manitoba’s cattle sector has received substantial recognition for environmental stewardship this month. Sustainability awards were presented by the province of Manitoba to both Association of Manitoba Community Pastures (AMCP) and Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP). The AMCP received a 2017 Manitoba Excellence Award for Sustainability in Water and Natural Area Stewardship while an honourable mention in
Manitoba’s percentage increase on farmland values was the second smallest of nine provinces.
Local news, News, Other

Manitoba, Canadian farmland values still increasing

The rate of increase in Manitoba farmland values has slowed, but it’s expected to keep appreciating this year

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Manitoba farmland values, up 25 years in a row, increased an average of five per cent in 2017 Farm Credit Canada (FCC) says in its 2017 Farmland Values Report released April 23. “In general, Manitoba saw higher-priced land values remaining relatively stable, while low- to mid-priced land values recorded increases,” the report says. Manitoba’s percentage
Dr. Tom Jensen of the International Plant Nutrition Institute presents in Brandon 
during one of several soil fertility updates in the last month.
Crops

Different nutrient, different strategy

The nutrient in question, its source, and a host of other variables determine the right path

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All nutrients are not created equal, and their management strategies should reflect that. That’s been a core message from soil and fertility specialists this winter during a round of soil fertility updates held in late January and early February. In recent years fertility and extension specialists have concentrated on the 4R message: right source at

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